Plastic heat insulating composition



Patented Mar. 2, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PLASTIC HEAT INSULATING COMPOSITION Oscar A. Brandt and Duluth Dalenius, Bellingham, Wash.

No Drawing. Application April 27, 1936, Serial No. 76,606

1 Claim. (Cl. 106-18) The object of our invention is the production of a plastic, nonconducting, waterproof composition. of matter of the character of cement to be applied tothe surfaces of steam-boilers, steampipes, pulp-digesters, and other receptacles and conduits as a lagging for preventing the radiation of heat and the permeation of water.

Our composition consists of a mixture of blue clay, flax-seed meal, green tow, hemp waste and 10 pulverized charcoal mixed together with waste sulphite liquor from paper pulp mills.

Green tow is the coarse, fibrous, waste product remaining after removing the finer, fibrous material from flax straw.

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